Saturday, March 27, 2010

You long-time henchpersons will recognize this as an homage to that amazing Darth Vader shower cake which I claimed could only be topped by a cake featuring Spock instead. Carol J. was less than impressed with the bakery's end result, but I think the wreckiness just adds to its hilarity, don't you?

Next we have Luke, age 6, who made a "T Rex, NOT a cake Rex!" for a school contest:

Adorable. Love the matching shirt, too, Luke.

(Oh, and he won the contest, btw, but that should go without saying.)

Hey, you know how you're always trying to think of more ways to include Cake Wrecks in your lives? Well here's an idea: use your copy of Cake Wrecks as the guest book at your wedding!

This is GENIUS, Lindsay F. I mean, first of all, now you can NEVER get rid of your copy of Cake Wrecks, but secondly, now this book contains the two things you hold most dear: CW, and, you know, all those people who showed up to your wedding. But mostly Cake Wrecks. Right?

And last but certainly not least, Malerie C. got crafty and made me a bracelet!

Cute, right? And hey, if you're tired of waiting on me and John to make more Jockey necklaces (sorry, sorry!) you can even head over to her Etsy store and buy one for yourself!

Many thanks to all of today's awesome readers, and to all of you who continue to make the life of professional blogging bearable with your notes, pictures, and e-mails. This has been a particularly trying week at the CW household, and so the time you guys have taken to encourage me and/or John has been especially treasured. Wreck on, dear Wrecktators. Wreck on.

What? Trouble at the CW house? Could it be the world is running out of WRECKY CAKES?! Hmm (musing cakewrecks.com)...Nah. Must be somethin' else. Well, thanks for the laughs...it's only proper that you make others' days, so they must 'make' yours! Ha! :) Relax this weekend, k?

I would marry Spock but I'm already married. So I'll eat him instead.Makes perfect sense. I'll be thinking along those lines for my baby shower! [My husband and I love your blog. Thanks for bringin' on the laughter.]

Yes! This confirms my theory that the world actually centers around Star Trek! Seriously, though, for the past THIRTY-TWO DAYS (!) I have, without looking for it at all, found a Star Trek reference somewhere. For example, just the past week:

Sunday-My Latin teacher threatens to "borrow Khan's bugs, stuff them with the vocabulary, and put them in your hat" so I will know the words

Monday-I receive a letter from an archaeologist I wrote to three months ago. The closing line? LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!

Tuesday-In Science class, one of the students (who has never seen Star Trek before) puts up a video about black holes that starts out with a view of space and the Star Trek theme (just the music, no intro)

Wednesday-While playing "Who Wants To Be A YouTubillionaire", one of the questions asks who is not in Star Wars and option D is "Captain Kirk"

Thursday-I am walking along the street and I see a poster with Leonard Nimoy's face on it

Friday-My math teacher talks about William Shatner hosting the closing ceremony of the Olympics on his blog

Saturday-CakeWrecks has a Spock cake!

So, as you see, I am amazed that these refrences keep turning up! I'm not provoking them at all, and yet they still seem to find me! Not that I'm not enjoying it, but it's getting weird. :)

P.S. Lulubelle, don't worry, it is the wrong Spock. That's Zachary Quinto as Spock (from the newest movie, which was a prequel). Although I would have preferred a Nimoy cake too, at least Quinto makes a good young-Spock.

Just think of how many thousands of trying weeks us readers have had that your website or book has improved. We're just returning the favor!

Tomorrow night Dr. Demento is playing "Wreckin' by the Book (the Cake Wrecks song)" on his show! Hopefully he'll say something nice about your website, too! :D By Monday, that episode of Dr. D will be available on www.drdemento.com to stream for a mere $2.00!

To all you haters out there...let me defend my choice for Spock in my best friend's shower cake.....First of all....I grew up watching reruns (because my dad was a huge Trekkie and bought the VHS tapes of the series) of Star Trek TOS. However....you gotta admit that Zachary is MUCH hotter than Leonard by FAR!!! So it was because of this point that I went with newSpock instead of oldSpock!

Luckily my best friend was highly amused by the cake...her family....well...they didn't get it, lol Oh well!! It still tasted great! AND it made Cake Wrecks, so my day was completely made today! Thanks Jen and John!

Jen, you and John have brightened up many a rough day in my household during the last few months.

Your book was in my big bag when I was at the hospital sitting watch over someone dear. It helped keep my mood level and remind me that laughter still existed in the world beyond that room. Thank you for that!

Rough week means this is as good a time to say this as any. While I was at Olive Garden yesterday, one of the groups waiting for a table were looking at the Cake Wrecks book. It made me almost as happy as the pasta I later ate.

Hey, that's my baby shower cake! Do you know that a mere 2 years ago I had never seen an episode of Star Trek and now I've dressed up in costume and gone to the Star Trek experience in Vegas, dressed up for the movie, and now had a Spock cake for my baby shower! It was absolutely priceless in a "omg what did they do" kind of way! The fact that it is now an official cakewreck just completes the story!

I always thought it was you guys(Jen and Jon husband of Jen) but now I know it it is... I found a slideshow about "cakewrecks.com" without your comentary and the pictures weren't as funny without you. Hope to make your day better as you make mine,Dwv skulkyv normally I'm just skulkyv on here but must post today!

These are awesome! And so are you guys, seriously. I'm sorry you're going through a rough time.. but remember, you will get through it :) As my grandmother used to say, the dessert tastes so much better after you've eaten your spinach. (Hey, I like spinach. But the message rings true, and the subject of the analogy was fitting, seeing as this is CW) :)Love you!! XOXOXO

Jen and John, I hope things are beginning to look up for you this week. Two weeks ago, when my mother-in-law was facing her final days (talk about a rough week), I went to CakeWrecks to take the edge off and get a little laughter. Bev would certainly approve, and you guys are a superb antidote to just about anything ailing a person. As another poster has said, if you guys need a break, take it!!! Everyone needs a vacation.

We love you, you rock! And when you get back from your break :) , keep up the awesome work!

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